Lead Stories 'fact checks' Jack Posobiec over obvious meme mocking Ketanji Brown Jackson

Conservatives had a field day at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's expense on Friday after her dissent in the Trump v. CASA case was torched by her fellow Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Jackson, who both joined Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent and penned one of her own, used so many bizarre hypotheticals in her dissent, including one referencing a Martian, without citing Supreme Court precedent, and became the subject of a meme. That meme was shared by influencers, including commentator Jack Posobiec, who was then fact-checked by Lead Stories.

The meme, which Lead Stories also pointed out was an "old meme," made fun of Jackson's dissent, her hypotheticals, and her intelligence. In a parody of her dissent, the meme showed her taking issue with a question posed "How would Your Honor feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?" and goes on to suggest, in the parody, that she doesn't get the point of the question at all.

The point of the question is to imagine something that did not happen and assess how you would have felt about it. Many people simply answer "but I did have breakfast this morning." The meme offers Jackson's hypothetical response to the hypothetical question as "that is wholly devoid of legal relevance and constitutes an egregious affront to the dignity of this Court." The meme has Jackson go on to say that yes, she had "eaten a full breakfast."

Posobiec shared the meme. Fact-checkers came crawling out of the ether to complain that the dissent did not mention breakfast. "Did the dissent in a June 2025 U.S. Supreme Court opinion mention a question about breakfast?" Lead Stories asked. "No, that's not true: What appeared to be a screenshot of an excerpt from the dissent in one of the opinions issued on June 27 was, in fact, no more than a joke. The paragraph alluded to a long-standing internet meme called 'The Breakfast Question', which is sometimes used as a way to mock someone's perceived lack of intelligence."

"The excerpt was fake, and never formed part of the dissent in any Supreme Court opinion issued on June 27, 2025. Rather," Lead Stories went on, "it was a reference to an old internet meme known as "The Breakfast Question", which is sometimes used to mock a subject's perceived lack of intelligence."

Lead Stories then explained that the meme was simply meant to indicate that Jackson is not really very smart at all. "By pretending that the dissenting justice had been asked 'How would Your Honor feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?' and then having the dissenting judge make a point of writing 'In fact, I had already stated that I had eaten a full breakfast', the joke was therefore intended to mock the intelligence of the dissenting judge." No, it was not mentioned in the actual dissent, which was not only torn apart on social media but by Barrett.

"But what if it had..." Posobiec suggested.

Perhaps someone would like to ask Lead Stories how they might feel if they had not had breakfast.